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"Are We Nothing But Living Machines?" A New York Sewing Woman Protests Wages And Working Conditions, 1863, New York Sun

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Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course On The Web webpage

Source: New York Sun, November 17, 1863

These Shining Lives Media Release, Susan Werner

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Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

These Shining Lives media release

January 2014

Marie Antoinette: The Color Of Flesh Plot Drawings 2014-2015, Providence College

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Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh plot drawings 2014-2015

Lysistrata: A Musical Protest Flyer, Providence College

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Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Lysistrata flyer

Interview With Margaret Toomey, Mary Moynihan

Books/Book Chapters

No abstract provided.

The Tallest Tree In The Forest, Jocelyn Buckner

Theatre Faculty Articles and Research

"Playwright and actor Daniel Beaty’s solo performance as Paul Robeson in The Tallest Tree in the Forest, commissioned by Tectonic Theater Project and coproduced by La Jolla Playhouse and Kansas City Repertory Theatre, was a tour-de-force biographical tribute."

A Survey Of Dramaturgical Practices In Contemporary American Theater: The Dramaturg In Process, Maggie Bell

All Master's Theses

A review of the literature on dramaturgical practices in the American theater from the past thirty years revealed a significant paucity of first-hand accounts by dramaturgs about their work and especially about the contributions dramaturgs make to the production process. In general, the literature addresses dramaturgical practices in abstract or theoretical terms, without documenting the specific contributions that dramaturgs make to the creation of productions and events as performances. This thesis documents and defines the dramaturgical process through interviews with a select sample of early career and established dramaturgs. The interviews conducted follow the narrative method of open-ended questions and …

Reading With The Grain: On Vin Nardizzi’S Wooden Os: Shakespeare’S Theatres And England’S Trees, Steven Swarbrick

Publications and Research

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Transformational Directing: An Analysis On How Leadership Affects The Creative Process, James Clayton Winters

Theses and Dissertations

Leadership is often ascribed as a quality one either possess or doesn’t. We often hear phrases like “She is born leader” or “All eyes are on you”, these are thrown around without discretion in the classroom, conference rooms, social gatherings, and business meetings. This work contends that leadership and in particular leadership that grows and transforms its participants is less an inherent character trait, than an outlook and set of core principles that lead to transformation. Through the application of current and developing business leadership theory and its effect on creativity and a cross analysis of “Best in Class” theatre …

Loving The Art In Yourself, Mary Moynihan

Books/Book Chapters

No abstract provided.